Dr Anneke Meyer
Principal Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
I completed a PhD on the social reaction to paedophilia at Manchester University in 2004.
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
Review editor for the BSA’s Sociology journal.
Consultancy and advisory roles
Member of the Joseph Rowntree Advisory Board for the project Transmission of Drinking Cultures, Liverpool John Moores University, 2008-2010.
Research outputs
My research interests and activities span a range of areas - including paedophilia and child sexual abuse, childhood, rape, gender, binge drinking, morality and moralising - which are connected by a focus on the media. Specifically, my research explores the ways in which the media create popular discourses around an issue and how these imapct on wider culture and society. I am interested in specific effects (e.g. the conceptualisation of laws or the implementation of rules) as well as general impact, such as providing a language for talking about a topic or contributing to the maintenance of norms and values.
- I am currently researching moral panics and Islamophobia, specifically the way in which certain Islamophobic disocurses underwrite and connect a number of discrete moral panics about Muslim ‘Others’. To this end, myself and Scott Poynting are perparing a conference paper and journal article f analysing the case of Abu Qatada in the British press.
- Between 2009 and 2011, myself and Katie Milestone completed the book Gender and Popular Culture (Polity Press) which investiagtes processes of media production, representation and consumption in relation to gender.
- Since 2008 I have conducted research into media representations around binge drinking and rape, with a focus on how media discourses shape public attitudes to intoxicated victims of rape and affect legal decision-making processes. This research has resulted in conference papers and publications (see below).
- 2001-2004 ESRC funded Phd Sociology: Governing the Child at Risk: Paedophiles, Media Responses and the Crisis of Neo-Liberalism. The thesisaims to understand and explain the social reaction to paedophiles – which are marked by panic and emotiveness – by engaging in a close discourse analysis of media representations of paedophilia as well as documenting focus group research with members of the public regarding their attitudes. This research has resulted in numeours conferences papers and publications, including the single-authored monograph The Child at Risk (Manchester University Press).
Other research activites and group memberships
Member of the Joseph Rowntree Advisory Board for the project Transmission of Drinking Cultures, Liverpool John Moores University, 2008-2010.
I am a member of the BSA’s media study group.
I am a member of the Parenting Cultures study group, based at the University of Kent.
I am a member of the BSA’s childhood study group.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Meyer, A., Milestone, K. (2021) Gender and Popular Culture, 2nd edition. Polity Press.
Milestone, K., Meyer, A. (2019) Gender and Popular Culture.
Milestone, K., Meyer, A. (2011) Gender and Popular Culture. Polity.
Meyer, A. (2007) The child at risk: paedophiles, media responses and public opinion.
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Chapters in books
Meyer, A., Poynting, S. (2018) ''Ta-Ta Qatada’: Islamophobic moral panic and the British tabloid press.' Media, Crime and Racism. Palgrave Macmillan,
Meyer, A., Milestone, K. (2016) 'The Lonely Cloud: Intensive Parenting and Social Media in Neoliberal Times.' We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, The Family and Popular Culture. Policy Press,
Meyer, A. (2015) 'The Rotherham Abuse Scandal.' Revisiting Moral Panics. Policy Press,
Meyer, A. (2012) 'Moral panics, globalisation and Islamophobia: the case of Abu Hamza in The Sun.'
Meyer, A. (2012) 'Global Islamophobia.' In Morgan, G., Poynting, S. (ed.) Global Islamophobia. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.,
Meyer, A. (2010) 'Evil monsters and cunning perverts: representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile..'
Meyer, A. (2010) 'Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control.' In Deflem, M. (ed.) Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control. Emerald Group Publishing,
Meyer, A. (2008) 'Investigating cultural consumers.' Research Methods for Cultural Studies. pp. 68-86.
Meyer, A. (2008) 'Researching cultural consumers.'
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Journal articles
Vasen, I., Milestone, K., Meyer, A. (2022) 'Book review: "Gender and Popular Culture" and Spanish translation of the chapter Digital Culture, Social Media and Gender.' Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, (17) pp. 452-480.
Meyer, A. (2010) '"Too drunk to say no": Binge drinking, rape and the daily mail.' Feminist Media Studies, 10(1) pp. 19-34.
Meyer, A. (2007) 'The moral rhetoric of childhood.' Childhood, 14(1) pp. 85-104.
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Conference papers
Massey, J., Meyer, A. (2009) 'Dangerous liaisons: child sex offending and underage sex in the media and the law.' In International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference. Indiana State University, USA, 5/10/2009 - 7/10/2009.